Wednesday, May 10, 2006

David Foster Wallace, thoughts on David Lynch, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" excerpt

I saw "Mulholland Drive" on dvd four or so years ago. I had crazy vivid nightmares for three straight days after veiwing this movie. I can't really say that even understood what the fuck was going on in this movie but I was deeply psychologically affected. It wasn't really a bad dream category, they were full blown nightmares, I haven't experienced dreams like them since or probably before, at least not as intense. I can't really remember any specifics but I just remember waking up feeling extremely disturbed, partially freaked-out. I couldn't shake this disturbed feeling for at least the better part of the day, for three days straight.

I'm not a huge Lynch fan, I really liked "Twin Peaks" (TV show) but I think the rest of his stuff is just too psychologically, maybe, subconsciously intense for me, a bit TOO weird. Anyway Wallace wrote a great piece on Lynch and his films, it is definitely must read material for anyone who is a Lynch fanatic or even partially interested in Lynch's work. Wallace got to go on the set of "Lost Highway" for a couple of days and "David Lynch Keeps His Head" was the result. Anyway, Wallace has one passage where he is trying to describe things that are Lynchian, the following passage kind of hits the nail on the head, and it's quite hilarious...

"A domestic-type homicide, on the other hand, could fall on various points of Lynchianism. Some guy killing his wife in and of itself doesn't have much of a Lynchian tang to it, though if it turns out the guy killed his wife over something like a persistent failure to refill the ice-cube tray after taking the last ice cube or an obdurant refusal to buy the particular brand of peanut butter the guy was devoted to, the homicide could be described as having Lynchian elements. And if the guy, sitting over the mutilated corpse of his wife (whose retrograde '50s bouffant is, however, weirdly unmussed) with the first cops on the scene as they all wait for the boys from Homicide and the M.E.'s office, begins defending his actions by giving an involved analysis of the comparative merits of Jif and Skippy, and if the beat cops, however repelled by the carnage on the floor, have to admit that the guy's got a point, that if you've developed a sophisticated peanut-butter palate and that palate prefers Jif there's simply no way Skippy's going to be anything like an acceptable facsimile, and that a wife who fails repeatedly to grasp the importance of Jif is making some very significant and troubling statements about her empathy for and commitment to the sacrament of marriage as a bond between two bodies, minds, spirits, and palates...you get the idea."editor's note: DFW goes on to make another good disturbing distinction b/wn Lynch and Tarantino (for the record I'm a pretty huge Tarantino fan, much more than Lynch, but this statement totally rings true, and is fucked up, but it rings true, at least to me). He says if Lynch would have filmed the infamous Mr. Blonde Resevoir Dogs scene that..."Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear"...creepy

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